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'A strange vision haunts me... I see a continuous cloud of smoke ascending toward the sky, left in the wake of a giant fire moving ever faster away. It is not a natural phenomenon, nor a creation of evil; that much I know.

I have no knowledge of what it looks like, save that it is the product of the labor of many. Yet, without more hands, it may never come to be.'

The innkeeper in Area 52 does not sell any goods, but food and drink can be purchased from Gant.

There are numerous areas where you can attack the opposing factions (and vice versa) and guards will not be aggroed. It is advisable to stay in a building or fly above the ground if you need to go away from keyboard if you play in a PvP realm or are PvP flagged. Area 52 Death Machines kill roof-campers, but engineers can control them with [Gnomish Universal Remote].

Area 52 has a few references to the outside world in it. The name of the town itself is a reference.

The X2 Nether Rocket has many goblins working on it, most of whom are clad in Star Trek-inspired uniforms.

Two of the goblins working on the X2 Nether Rocket have a dialogue running along the lines of Elton John's "Rocket Man".

The X2 name is a reference to the X-plane, the experimental U.S. airplane/rocket program.

The town's name is a reference to Area 51, a US military base which has strong pop culture ties to extraterrestrials and their space-faring technology.

When going through the doors, players receive a short "debuff" (with no apparent effects) from the A-52 Neuralyzer, which says "The flash of light you did not see did not erase your memories." In the film Men in Black, agents were issued a device, also called a Neuralyzer, that wiped people's memories with a flash of light whenever they had any contact with aliens.